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Jaimini’s Chara Dasha–My ApproachPart 1ByK.N.Rao, India.LK. N. Rao needs no introduction, heruns the biggest school of astrology in theworld, has produced the highest number oftop quality books which has cult following,and is known for his outstanding predictiveability. History acknowledges hiscontribution in popularizing Vargas usagein India & USA, Double Transitphenomenon & Chara Dasha. He isconsidered as the one who showed for thefirst time exhibited in astrology what wastermed spell bounding writing styles inJyotish, using narratives with top classjyotish content, a style now adopted bymany over the decades. It is often foundthat what he writes in one line is 15 pagearticles for others. For his articles visitwww.journalofastrology.comost in wilderness, shrouded in theambiguity of aphorism andinterpreted in arbitrary fashionby astrologers with genuine tofraudulent claims, Jaimini astrologywill continue to baffle astrologers formany more decades. What then shouldbe the approach of an astrologer ingenuine search of working andworkable Jaimini methods tormentedme, as it must have many astrologers. Itherefore evolved a seven step approachMy Seven Step ApproachFirst Step Each astrologer wanting tomake Jaimini astrology his predictive toolmust first read whatever books areavailable, most of them in translations.My Findings: KarakasThe first problem was to decidewhen to use seven karakas and wheneight. It was not a ticklish problem atall as if all planets are calculated uptoseconds, there never was a clashbetween two planets contesting for theposition of a karaka. Try it and see if Iam right. I solved this problem easily.
Meaning of Karakas: my original researchI studied whatever was available on Jaimini and collected a huge library andfound that no one, even the most respected Krishna Mishra or Neelakantha evenhinted at how these Karakas were to be used. It was like someone telling me that helived in Bombay but never gave his address. It shocked me totally and sometimes Ifelt that either it was hidden or these great and famous commentators neverunderstood their uses. Then, B.Suryanarain Rao, B.V.Raman, P.S.Sastry or IrangantiRangacharya who wrote articles in the Astrological Magazine never even pointed out orproduced any research to show how these karakas were to be used. I took a bolddecision to do it myself, a task which had never been done before by anyone.Rule of harmonyThen as in law, so in astrology follow the principle of harmony in theinterpretation of karakas. I reasoned out myself and came with a workable methodwhich has turned to be a very effective tool for prediction. I have shown it throughvarious examples for twenty six years now in 2010 and will show many more in thisarticle.AtmakarakaIn Parashara you have the first house and its lord for self so that should be theAtmakaraka a planet with the highest degrees.In Parashara you have the third house and its lord for siblings etc so that should bethe Bhatrikaraka. So that should be a planet with the third highest degrees.In Parashara you have the fourth house and its lord for mother and home etc sothat should be the Matrikaraka. So that should be a planet with the fourth highestdegrees.In Parashara you have the fifth house for education, children, mantra etc. So thefifth karaka must be Putrakaraka. So that should be a planet with the fifth highestdegrees.In Parashara you have the sixth house and its lord for enemies, diseases etc and soit should be the Gnathikaraka. So that should be a planet with the sixth highestdegrees.In Parashara you have the seventh house and its lord for spouse etc and so it shouldbe the Darakaka. So that should be a planet with the lowest degrees.What about Amatyakaraka then ?What about the second karaka then?It is Amatyakaraka which means a courtier or an important man in the court of aking in the days of monarchy. So in our days it should mean an important man and
by extension your own importance. Is it a hint about career I wondered and proceededwith this assumption with my research and got amazing results as I will show.What about a karaka for father?The problem is easily solved if you use Bhatrikaraka and Sun for father andBhatrikaraka and Mars for siblings as has been shown in some books on Jaimini. Herewe must remember that sthirakarakas must always be considered in Jaimini astrology.AbbreviationsThe abbreviations I used then were AK, AmK, BK, MK, PK, GK and DK.I then combined sthirakakas like Sun for father, Moon for mother etc.PadasFor padas I decided not to use any exception and got excellent results which I willshow partially in this article or a later article.Second StepWhatever the translators say must never be accepted blindly. Remember that most ofthe translators are Sanskrit scholars but not distinguished astrologers or successfulpredictors. We are grateful to them for making available many manuscripts but wemust become cautious when it comes to their what I call “shloka mauling and sutrachopping” boast.My FindingManoj Pathak a teacher of astrology in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi,decided to do a research on Parashara’s Chakra dasha and found that out of eightdifferent translations of available Parashara texts, no astrologer knew how to computeit. The translation they gave never gave any accurate results. He has solved theproblem amazingly now. He and his students have been giving brilliant readingsbased on Chakra dasha. Soon they are going to come out with an amazing book.Through experience you will know when and how to ignore these translators oreven commentators (though there is none really who can be called a commentator ofthese books) and then getting enmeshed in a confusion, seek a way out of it with lotof struggle if you persist with your research.Third StepTest whatever has been understood on the well known events of your own life onyour chart and on those of your family members or friends whose life events areknown to you with correct events and correct dates.
My FindingThe results I got were amazing and brilliant and it is the experience of mystudents also.Fourth StepNow try it on the well known horoscopes of famous people and test the validity of yourunderstanding on the horoscopes of yours and of your relation and friends which youhave done earlier.My FindingIt is what I am going to show in this article.Fifth StepDo not bring in fanciful theories which are not mentioned in any translation ofJaimini like the Char Karaka Substitution which is a fanciful, if also fraudulent,theory being circulated now.My FindingReject totally what is not given either in Jaimini sutras or in the Jaimini portion inParashara text otherwise you will walk into a cave where you will suffer astrologicalsuffocation.Sixth StepWherever your testing necessitates it, modify with reasons the translation of Jaiminitexts remembering that most of these translators were and are only Sanskrit scholarsand not successful predictors because of which they may have misinterpreted or evenwrongly translated some shlokas and sutras.My FindingIt is a risk you take but not rashly or with fraudulent claim that you have learnt itfrom some secret tradition which can be dubious and fraudulent. Claiming to bebelonging to a secret tradition is marketing.You must prove it and replicate it over a period of many years as I have donebefore publishing my research. Your aim must be to contribute something forunderstanding the changed and changing times through astrology and reject ormodify whatever has agricultural and pastoral connotation when these books ofastrology were written.
Seventh StepWithout losing respect for Krishna Mishra or Neelakantha, the famouscommentators on Jaimini sutras, keep in mind that their own understanding orinterpretation may be incomplete or even wrong.My FindingI will refer to it later and not in this article.After laying the Seven Step approach let me explain how I proceeded ininterpreting Jaimini astrology within my own limitations.I took a bold decision to do it myself, a task which had never been done before byanyone.My Aims In Doing Research In Jaimini Chara DashaI must explain that I had been giving excellent predictions through Vimshottaridasha and vargas which late Sheshadri mentioned in his books but which Ipopularized on a large scale.But I had to use Chara dasha and many other dashas of Jaimini out of sheernecessity and demand.The reasons are:1. During my service career I was posted in Shillong (1962-63) when I met manyBengalis who had lost their birth horoscopes when they were fleeing from what thenwas East Pakistan.2) Then I had two postings in Calcutta (1967 to 1969 and again from 1975 to 1978when again I met many Bengalis who had lost their birth horoscopes when they werefleeing from what then was East Pakistan.3) From 1978 till my retirement in 1990, I met many Punjabis and Haryanvis andDelhites who were either refugees who had lost their horoscopes while fleeing fromwest Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947 or had Arya Samajbackground and never got their horoscopes prepared.When they felt the need to have astrological readings, some of them came to me and Ifound out that if I fixed their lagnas properly on the basis of the scanty information theyprovided, without fixing the degrees of the lagna, I could give them helpful predictions on thebasis of Chara dasha and seven, and only seven karakas.I also found that being a government officer with ten to five office hours, I wasalways short of time and I needed accurate Vimshottari dasha after correcting thebirth time which is wrong in ninety percent times.I solved my problem by heavily relying on Chara dasha and Karakas and doublechecked it with Vimshottari dasha without using vargas in most cases and gave goodpredictions though some went wrong awfully also.
In those cases where I had accurate horoscopes, I used both dashas and even someconditional dashas on which I did lot of research but have left it to my colleagues inthe Astrology Faculty of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan. In these cases I invariablyused divisional charts most of which,(leaving some) I have revealed in my books.Keeping this background in the mind follow my discussion of the horoscopesunder ECMCD or education, career, marriage, children and death.Follow my line of reasoning by preparing charts in which all birth horoscopes are1)Marked with karakas.2)Mark the Karakamsha (KL) along with the Atmakaraka also in the lagna.3)Mark the putrakaraka (PK)4)Mark the darakaraka and also the darakaraka navamsha in the birthhoroscope (DKN) and note the dual use I make of it for marriage and also death.5)Mark the upapada in the birth horoscope.Computing the Chara dasha periodsIn calculating the periods I neither add one extra year for exalted planet nordeduct one extra for debilitated period for the following reasons:1) Since there are only twelve rashis, so the maximum dasha period can be oftwelve years only. If Mercury is at two degrees in Kanya, by adding one year to fulltwelve year period it will become thirteen.2) If Jupiter is at two degrees in Makara, for the Dhanu period the period will bezero which appears absurd to me as no rashi can have zero period. Additionally,Dhanu periods are known for rise and fall, sudden events and even tragedies. If in ahoroscope there is a zero year for it, some important events cannot be seen at all is myexperience.3) In timing events in horoscopes which have exalted and debilitated planets as inthe case of Queen Elizabeth II and Chandrasekhar the former prime minister ofIndia, I will show how following my method, timing of events becomes accurate.I and my students have followed this method and have given many successfulpredictions with timing becoming accurate.The illustrative horoscopes being used here are of those famous persons whose lifeevents are historically documented and the horoscopes used have correct lagnasthough the degrees of the lagna may be debatable. But in using Chara dasha that is nota handicap.Note: I use the Karakamsha lagna in the birth horoscope for many good reasonswhich are sound. I will explain it.If all karakas are used in navamsha it is called Swamsha.
It is the tradition followed in many parts of northern India and gives excellentresults.See a sutra for example:Shukrendo Shukradrishe rasavadip 49Meaning that if Venus is in Karakamsha lagna and is aspected by Moon, he willbecome a dealer in medicines etc.(Suresh Ch, Mishra Jaimini Sutram of Ranjan Publications, 1989 edition in Hindi)Anyone in the world with Moon and Venus in the same degrees as Atmakarakaand Amatyakaraka in the birth horoscope will also have them in navamsha and theyall will become dealers in medicines.If you judge it from Karakamsha in lagna it may give a different meaning and lotof flexibility is available for interpretation. It is why traditionally, north Indianastrologers put Karakamsha in the birth horoscope and judge the results.If you blend the results from Karakamsha in lagna and Karakamsha in Swamsha(meaning all karakas put in navamsha as south Indian astrologers do) you get betterresults.Special PointFinally, no writer on Jaimini has talked of Darakaraka as both giver of spouse and also death.Death should ofcourse be predicted after finding out the span of life which is a toughtask and should be approached through many techniques combined in a harmoniousscheme and technique.Queen Elizabeth IIBirth of sibling Birth of her only sibling Margaret or Countess of SnowdonPrincess Margaret was born on 21 Aug 1930 in Scorpio-Simha with BK Venusaspecting the third house from Simha and in dreshkona where Venus is in the thirdhouse from Simha.
Chara dasa1Cp: 1926-04-21 - 1928-04-20Sg: 1928-04-20 - 1929-04-20Sc: 1929-04-20 - 1931-04-21Li: 1931-04-21 - 1935-04-21Vi: 1935-04-21 - 1941-04-20Le: 1941-04-20 - 1945-04-20Cn: 1945-04-20 - 1957-04-20Ge: 1957-04-20 - 1966-04-20Ta: 1966-04-20 - 1975-04-20Ar: 1975-04-20 - 1984-04-20Pi: 1984-04-20 - 1986-04-20Aq: 1986-04-20 - 1994-04-20Cp: 1994-04-20 - 1996-04-20Sg: 1996-04-20 - 1997-04-20Sc: 1997-04-20 - 1999-04-20Li: 1999-04-20 - 2003-04-20Vi: 2003-04-20Marriage She was married on 20 November 1947. Karka -Mesha- Vrischika which hasdarakaraka.Cancer is the seventh house from her lagna and is aspected by DK Saturn and also hasDKN. In the navamsha lagna there is DKN in Karka while the pratyantara dasha ofVrischika has DK Saturn.1 Readers may note that some softwares might not match in dates with KNRs calculation for e.g. Jhora does not match inthe exact dates when it comes to dasa in the tab KNRs chara dasa as given in that software
Birth of children1. Prince Charles 14 Nov 1948Elizabeth gave birth to her first child, Prince Charles, on 14 November 1948, (KarkaMeena which has PK).From Karka the fifth house receives the aspect of Jupiter the sthira Putrakaraka.In Saptamsha Mercury the PK is in the fifth house aspecting the natural PK Jupiter.2. Princess Anne 15 Aug 1950A second child, Princess Anne, was born on 15 Aug 1950. Again in Karka butMakar antardasha which is aspected by PK Mercury in the Saptamsha.3. Prince Edwards was born on 19 Feb 1960 in Mithuna mahadasha which is aspectedby Mercury (PK) and Kumbha antardasha from where the fifth house has the aspectof PK. He must have entered his mother’s womb in the antardasha of Meena whichhas PK.4. Edward Mountbatten-Windsor was born on 10 March 1964
It was Mithuna mahadasha aspected by PK and Simha antardasha from wherethe fifth house Dhanu is aspected by PK.I have discussed these events in my book Planets and Children usingVimshottari dasha and the double transit of Jupiter and Saturn.Proclaimed Queen“On 6 February 1952, they had just returned to Sagana Lodge, about 100 miles (160km) north of Nairobi, after a night spent at Treetops Hotel when word arrived of thedeath of Elizabeth's father.”It was Makar Dhanu Kumbha dashas with BK aspected by Sun natural significator forfather.Note: How BK combined with Sun the natural significator for father shows the event ofher father’s death. There is no need for an eighth karaka as some softwares have and haveconfused many lovers of Jaimini astrology.She was proclaimed the new queen as both AK and Amk aspect the tenth from Kumbha.She and the Duke of Edinburgh moved into Buckingham Palace. Fourth house isaspected by both AK and AmK in the same dasha.Coronation 2 June 1953It was Karka mahadasha from where AK and Amk aspect the eleventh houseand Tula antardasha with both Atmakaraka in the fourth house of Raj Simhasana orthe royal throne and Dhanu antardasha which is the rashi of rise and fall and fromDhanu the ninth house of dignity gets aspected by both Atmakaraka andAmatyakaraka.A bad year“In 1992, which Elizabeth termed her annus horribilis, meaning horrible year,two of her sons separated, her daughter divorced, and a severe fire destroyed part ofWindsor Castle. Revelations on the state of her eldest son Charles's marriagecontinued, and he divorced in 1996. “ (from the internet)It was the period of Kumbha-Dhanu which is aspected by PK and from wherethe seventh house has Rahu.In the Saptamsha, (Karka lagna) Dhanu antardasha is the sixth house. It isworse as the PK is in the twelfth house (Vrischika twelfth from Dhanu) DK and GKare in the sixth house showing trouble to her children making it a horrible year forher.NoteHow I make use of different Vargas and the researched Chara dasha along withexalted and debilitated planet is shown in the riskiest prediction of my life given to a
former prime minister of India, Chandrasekhar. It has been mentioned in thebiography of Chandrasekhar of the late Hiralal Chaubey with a mention of how Icorrected the lagna itself of Chandrasekar and predicted his rise to the post of theprime minister of India. It is given also in my website www.journalofastrology.com (seeArticles)From www.journalofastrology.com2Chandrasekhar , Former Indian Prime Minister, A Memoir.my riskiest prediction-1.KN RAO29 July 2007, 3:45 AMThe late Hiralal Chaubey, a noted Hindi journalist, had revised his biography ofChandrasekhar, the former prime minister of India, before his own death.Today, 8 July 2007, Chandrasekhar died in Apollo hospital in the dasha of Venus, amaraka for Mesha lagna.Hiralal had promised to present me a copy of the revised biography because hehad mentioned the prediction I had given to Chandrasekhar of his becoming theprime minister at a very crucial time in his career when Chaubey had taken me tohim in August 1990. But he died and I could not get the copy of the revised biographyof Chandrasekhar.A friend presented a copy of it in 2006 and there is mentioned clearly with myname, the prediction I had given to him in the presence of many people in August1990 that he would become the prime minister of India for a brief spell that year itselfreplacing V.P.Singh who was looked upon as a menace because of his notoriousMandal politics. It was the policy of implementation of a poorly investigated, fudgedand manipulated report on reservations for the other backward classes of India, thenotorious report of B.P. Mandal.How can this happen in the mahadasha of debilitated Mercury was the questionof some astrologers sitting in the large gathering at the place of Chandrasekhar wholoved to have a gathering of people around him always. I had insisted that it wouldhappen in the mahadasha of Mercury and the antardasha of Moon very suddenly. InJaimini it would be the mahadasha of Kumbha and the antardashas of Simha. Intransit, Jupiter would be in Karka then and Saturn in Dhanu. Was Rajiv Gandhi whowas killed on 21 May 1991. .It was easy to double check the prediction I had given toChandrasekhar with Chara dasha where from Kumbha, his Amatyakaraka, Saturnwould be in the tenth house.2 KNR gives data as 17 April 1927, 06:51 am, Ballia, UP, Aries lagna and last navamsha
Chandrasekhar became the prime minister in November of that year (1990) andfell after seven months.I have to explain why I took the risk of giving the prediction so openly, the firstand the last time ever, in an open durbar of Chandrasekhar.Hiralal Chaubey, himself an astrologer, had given to him Mithuna lagna withwhich I had not agreed. After verifying the life events of Chandrasekhar, I had givenhim Mesha lagna, last navamsha and given to him what to date is my riskiestprediction. Not arguing with me, Hiralal took me to Chandrasekhar and asked me totell about my prediction.( 8 July 2007)Chandrasekhar, Former Indian Prime Minister, A Memoir.my riskiest prediction-2KN RAO29 July 2007, 3:22 AMWhy had I changed the lagna of Chandrasekhar from Mithuna given by HiralalChaubey (see page 269 CHANDRASEKHAR ek lambe safar ki kahaniVINDHYACHAL PRAKASHAN B 19- Gulmohar Park, Delhi 110049) to Meshawas the question I had to answers later and some of them in the presence ofChandrasekhar.Let me deal with it partly in a question-answer method.1: You are the eldest child of your parents or the first child of your mother.Chandrasekhar I am not the first child of my father but am the first of mymother. My father married twice.
2. You have studied political science, sociology but part of your education gotinterrupted.Chandrasekhar I studied both and later I could not complete my PhD because Igot involved in politics.3. Between 1975 and 1977 did you yourself take a decision to leave the Congressparty or were expelled?Chandrasekhar Expelled.I gave my prediction to him thus: Astrologically you could not have risen to thehigh post of the prime minister in 1989 though, it was said that Biju Patnaik hadhatched a conspiracy to propose the name of Devi Lal, the senior most among you all.Chandrasekhar had looked at me with poker face without showing whether hebelieved me or not. There ended the meeting.Discussion with others was on the following lines.A person who started his career like an intrepid socialist failed to rise higherbecause Indira Gandhi did everything to ruin his career. This is well explained by thepresence of the tenth lord in the eighth house and the eighth lord aspecting the tenthhouse.It was the period of Saturn Mars that he suffered the worst disaster of hispolitical career. Here Mars in the eighth house of dashamansha confirms the readingavailable from the birth horoscope.It started in the period of Tula-Kanya in Chara dasha with Amk in the thirdhouse and AK in the sixth and two malefics in the tenth house.He did become the prime minister in November 1990 and it was a ratherludicrous situation, depending on the mercy of Rajiv Gandhi to whose disgrace it willbe always said that on flimsiest ground he withdrew the support of his party to thegovernment of Chandrasekhar in which he had less than sixty men of his own !(9 June 2007)Chara DashaMesha1927 to 1929Vrisha1929 to 1941Mithuna 1941 to 1950Note: I have made no extra deduction for debilitated Mercury.Karka1950 to 1959Simha1959 to 1963Note: I have made no extra addition for exalted Sun.Kanya1963 to 1969Note: I have made no extra deduction for debilitated Mercury again.
TulaVrischikaDhanuMakaraKumbhaMeena1969 to 19761976 to 19831983 to 19851985 to 19871987 to 19951995 to 1996Second cycle of Chara dashaMesha1996 to 1998Vrisha1998 to 2010NoteThe addition I am making now is to show his death through the method I amdiscussing consistently. I am also showing why I do not make extra addition forexalted planets and extra deduction for debilitated planets.He died in July 2007 in Vrisha which is aspected by Moon Darakaraka which isthe dual use of DK as researched by me and the antardasha of Karka which is sixthfrom the Atmakaraka Jupiter in Kumbha. The pratyantara dasha was of Mesha fromwhere Darakaraka is in the seventh and is aspected by AK. Mesha is also aspected byAK.In Vimshottari it was Ven-Ven Moon marakas in many ways.Rajiv Gandhi – Events of life at a glanceBirth of siblingBirth of Sanjay 14 Dec 1946 Simha which has BK Moon along with so manyother karakas, in the antardasha of Vrischika from where the third house is aspectedby BK. His younger brother Sanjay Gandhi was born.Chara dasaMaha Dasas:Le: 1944-08-20 - 1956-08-20Vi: 1956-08-20 - 1957-08-29Li: 1957-08-29 - 1967-08-20Sc: 1967-08-20 - 1969-08-20Sg: 1969-08-20 - 1977-08-20Cp: 1977-08-20 - 1984-08-20Aq: 1984-08-20 - 1992-08-19
Pi: 1992-08-19Death of Sanjay GandhiIn Makar-Simha-Karka (15 June 1980 to 2 July 1980) his brother Sanjay Gandhidied in an air accident. From Makar which has DKN, BK Moon is in the eighthhouse. Simha has BK and in dreshkona from Karka BK Moon is in the sixth Dhanuthe rashi of accidents. Karka is the eighth house from Karakamsha which is Dhanu.Note: Remember, it is safer to use pratyantara dasha in the relevant varga chart.3EducationWent to UK for studies in 1961 in Tula-Meena and Kumbha. From Tula fifthhouse gets aspected by Rahu showing a technical education.From Meena it is again Rahu in the fifth house.From Kumbha the fifth house it is Saturn in the fifth house aspected by Marsshowing technical education which is engineering in this case. But from Tula the fifthhouse does not show good education in this period and Rajiv could not get any degree.Love affair and marriageLove affair“In the January of 1965, he met Italian Antonia Maino in Varsity restaurant inCambridge.”It was Tula Karka. From Karka there is Ketu with DKN in the seventh house. Itis a foreign girl with whom he fell in love.Marriage 25 Feb 1968 in Vrischik Karka and Vrisha.Readers are cautioned that some popular softwares calculate the chart of Rajiv Gandhi wrongly even after using wartime corrections, K.N.Rao’s book ‘The Nehru Dynasty’ not only contains extensive analysis of Rajiv Gandhi’s chart but isconsidered a master piece on predictive techniques.3
Vrischika is aspected by DKN.From Karka DKN is in the seventh house.From Vrisha the seventh house receives the aspect of DKNBirth of Rahul Gandhi 19 June 1970 Dhanu Tula Makar. Dhanu is the fifth house ofthe birth horoscope, Tula is aspected by PK Jupiter and for finer timing see thesaptamsha where from Makar the fifth house is aspected by PK Jupiter.Birth of Priyanka Wadhera 12 Jan 1972 Dhanu which is the fifth house, Simha whichhas PK Jupiter and Mesha from where PK is in the fifth house. In Saptamsha fromMesha PK Jupiter aspects the fifth house.Mother killedPrime Minister after mother’s death 1984 OctIn Kumbha Meena Karka his mother was killed.Saturn MK is aspected by Mars who is also DK in the eighth house from Kumbha. Inthe birth horoscope Meena shows MK Saturn in the fourth house aspected by Marswhich is DK and that is the dual use of DK here. Karka is the eighth house fromKarakamsha which is Dhanu.In dwadashamsha, from Karka, the natural significator Moon falls in the eighthhouse. In Makar-Simha-Karka his brother had died and now in Kumbha MeenaKarka his mother was killed.Prime MinisterBut from Karka pratyantara dasha, AK Mercury, Amk Venus and theremaining three other karakas aspect the tenth house and he was sworn in as primeminister by President Zail Singh.
Killed 21 May 1991 in Kumbha-Makar-Vrischika he was killed. From Kumbha DKNaspects the seventh house. Makar antardasha has DKN and remember the dual use ofDK and DKN. Vrischika is aspected by DKN.In August 1990, I shared with readers of the Times of Astrology, an astrologicaljournal, my research in the most difficult dasha in astrology, the Kaal Chakra dasha.With Jaimini’s Chara dasha, as I am the first ever astrologer to show howpredictions can be made, so too with the Kaal Chakra dasha I had done that. Toillustrate, I had taken Rajiv Gandhi’s horoscope and had discussed it ten monthsbefore Rajiv’s death. After the death of Rajiv Gandhi, newspaper men thought withtheir usual ignorance that no astrologer had predicted this tragic event. Then a verydecent journalist of the Times of India, Vandana Mandlekar, contacted me and afterexamining all the evidences, wrote in the Times of India, June 6, 1991) the following :“In all fairness sample these hints. K.N. Rao analysing Rajiv Gandhi’s horoscopein the August 1990 issue of the Times of Astrology wrote:“The Pisces-Sagittarius period (June 6, 1990 to August 20, 1991) is a period ofSimhavlokan, a period of total change in his political style of functioning. a timeof risks and dangerous dare-devilry, a cataclysmic change which can be both fataland spectacular”. Rao emphasises that he had detected a primary marakaindicating death) in the June 1990 to August 1991 period.Then why did Rao word it so cautiously in his interview to another magazinein April? (“There will be attempts on the lives of big leaders” is all he said). Hedid not want to invite the provisions of the Anti-Terrorist Act, he explains.The Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act ironically passed bythe Rajiv Gandhi government in 1987, has become the proverbial Aunt Sally forastrologers now. The act, for the first time, lumped stargazers with terrorists todeclare that action would be taken against whoever “predicts, prophesises orpronounces or otherwise expresses, in such manner as to incite, advise, suggest orprompt, the killing or the destruction of any persons bound by oath under theConstitution.”Thus, an astrologer predicting Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination would have beenliable to a minimum of seven years’ imprisonment.– The Times of IndiaRajiv Gandhi’s death was seen by me by applying some other dashas of Jaimini(the Sthira dasha, particularly), and also the Vimshottari dasha. But the application ofthe Vimshottari dasha was purely classical, not the extension of the Atmakaraka ofJaimini to the Vimshottari.
Mahatma GandhiImpressions of Gandhi? You might well ask for someone’s impressions of theHimalayas. - George Bernard ShawMahatma Gandhiji’s life is well documented yet the information available about hissons is scanty. Let some known events be traced through Chara Dasha.Tula dasha (1869 to 1881) was spent in primary education but those being days of childmarriages,
the Astrology Faculty of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan. In these cases I invariably used divisional charts most of which,(leaving some) I have revealed in my books. Keeping this background in the mind follow my discussion of the horoscopes under
